Carlson

At first glance, it seems as if The Economist, in a recent post titled “The sharing economy: Remove the roadblocks,” is warning me that local government is setting up barriers to community sharing. The article bemoans the fact that disruption[i] in...

Tax increment financing (TIF) has been mentioned recently in relation to two proposed sports-related developments in southeastern Wisconsin: a new BMO Harris Bradley Center and entertainment district in downtown Milwaukee and a minor-league baseball...

The Public Policy Forum’s annual Research Brief and school directory on the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) - released this morning - finds that the program includes 110 schools and 25,820 students as of the 2013-2014 school year....

A recent Brookings Institution report on rising inequality within major cities indicated that Milwaukee is one of the top six metropolitan areas in which inequality is growing. A follow-up article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel referred to the...

A December 7th article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports on the changing nature of manufacturing work: more automation and fewer jobs. This follows a November 21st article also in the Journal Sentinel which laid out the most...

Public Schooling in Southeast Wisconsin 2012-2013 is the 27th in a series of Public Policy Forum annual reports on K-12 education policy, funding, academic achievement, and demographics in the southeast Wisconsin region (Milwaukee, Waukesha,...

Yesterday’s Journal Sentinel reports that Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin plans to relocate its current training facility at 200 W. Vogel Avenue, near Milwaukee’s airport, to a facility at 5400 S. 60th Street in Greendale. The move...